Antique Chinese porcelain vase, with very fine detailed cobalt blue underglaze designs with flora around the vase's rim, sides, and bordering many panels with incredible paintings (in a famille de rose color palette) of brightly clothed people in bustling city scenes, as well as lovely scenes of nature. The vase has a lid just as wonderfully decorated as the body with cobalt pigment floral designs and detailed paintings, topped with a fu dog lacquered with red, blue, green, and gold...
Japanese three-section kimono tansu made from kiri wood, its mid and bottom section has five long drawers with round metal lockplates that slide open to reveal a keyhole, and two warabite handles adorned with flora. The topmost section of the tansu has two smaller drawers with a single handle each, topped with two sliding panel doors, opening to a shelved interior and two more small drawers with adorable twin fish handle pulls.
Size: 61.5" height, 45.5" width, 16" depth
A pair of perfectly potted porcelain bowls, decorated in iron - red, with plump feathery tailed godfish swimming amongst wafes in sgraffiato technique. Underglaze Daoguang Marks ( 1821 - 1850 ).Diameter : 10,6 cm. H : 5,8 cm. Condition : Perfect. Provenance : Old Suisse collection.
Antique Tibetan trunk with a gorgeous painted front depicting a wide array of bright animals roaming grassy plains. From the left side, a blue scaled dragon with red hair and scales descends from a billowing cloud, clutching a ball in both of its front claws. Sheep, an ox, tigers, a rabbit, a horse, a large bird, and a dog span the plains, and two small monkeys are shown climbing a tree to pick its fruit, while a snake coils its body around the trunk...
Up for sale is this wonderfully textured 19th century Japanese cast iron tea kettle made by noted Kyoto-school tetsubin craftsman Kibundo ( 1812-1892 ).
It is cast in high relief with the image of a landscape and plants.
This fine kettle bears the body-mark “Kibundo zo” and a remnant of the square seal mark of Kibundo on the bottom.
The quality of the relief casting is superb...
Japanese antique two section isho tansu (chest on chest for clothing), made of sugi (cedar) wood and finished all over with an opaque black lacquer, beautiful ornate raised iron hardware included four lock plates each with a different design depicting birds and pines, the bottom lock plate has a turtle, the bottom section has a safe compartment in the lower right hand side, inside the safe are two small drawers, Sakata Area, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Size: 39" high x 33 1/4" wide x 16" de...
Chinese Ming dynasty blue and white stem bowl, Jiajing period. 15,2 cm diameter. the bowl has small chipped and hairline. the stem has been broken missing the bottom part. Free from any repair.
Chinese Tang or Five Dynasties whistle with bird figure. Yue ware. Good conditions except glaze degradation because found from under the river. 7,5cm wide. 5cm high.
14th-15th Vietnamese blue and whit jarlet with Dragon motive. 8,5 cm diameter. 4 cm high. Good conditions.
Unique Antique Tibetan 19th century lacquered cabinet with beautiful age and charming country look. Sunflower and peony flower detail on doors painted in yellow and green. Top of cabinet has two drawers that pull out and bottom cabinet has two opening doors with loop hole handles.
Circa 1800-1850
Dimensions: Height 39", 38" Long, 21.5" Deep
Indian painting. Water-colour on card of a Pathan tribesman. In a hand carved brass inlaid frame. 37 x 31 cm. undated estimated to be c.1900.
Indian painting. Watercolour on card of a soldier from '3rd 'Skinner's Horse'. In carved brass inlaid frame.
Undated, estimated to be c. 1900. Strong color. Signed with initial W in right hand corner.
Antique Japanese light orange chirimen silk kimono, with beautiful floral and linear designs woven in the fabric. It is heavily embroidered with bright and beautiful flowers of many kinds, colorful leaves, twisting striped ribbons in thick gold and silver thread, and shibori accents.The upper interior is lined in white silk. Early 20th century
Size: 66" height, 51" width
An absolutely stunning Edo Period black Oribe tea bowl covered in thick, ink black glaze with a floral and abstract design.
The slightly irregular shaped kutsu-gata (shoe shaped) form settles easily into the palm of the hand, with the built up rim resting lightly on the fingers.
The tea bowl comes together with a good box with pouch (shifuku) and corner protections (hashira).
Size: 7,5 cm height x 14 cm diameter.
Shipping included
A beautiful Japanese cloisonne enamel tray by Namikawa Sosuke. The scene is a bird perched on a flowering branch. The grayish background changes in tone from the top to bottom. The back is decorated with gilt wire stylized designs. The oval tray measures 11 5/8 inches by 9 1/4 inches. Signed on the front Seitei - Watanabe Shotei. Condition is excellent. In the last image on the back a 1/2 inch slightly darker area can be seen...
Ca. early 1800s
These bowls with matching inset lids are crafted from turn wood, and are lacquered black and red in the folk art tradition. They are intended for everyday use for soup and rice. Each has a kanji character painted in red lacquer on the lid and centers of the base. There is minor lacquer flaking here and there and usual evidence of use, but overall the condition is good. The sizes, though similar, are not exactly the same...
An amazing pair. Famille Verte. Buddhistic lions with a blue color in combination with the typical " famille-verte-green " are very rare. This pair of lions is definitely NOT from the 19th cetury. This rare pair is from the Kangxi Period ( 1662 - 1722 )! Provenance : From an German Aristocratic collection. To the base of both lions is an old German inscription and an inventory Number from this Aristocratic collection...
Diameter approximately 10 cm. In good condition.